In light of Capcom's Dead Rising 2 releasing this week for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, we look back at notable video games featuring the undead over the past 25 years, including absolute trainwrecks like Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green and ground-breaking horror games like Resident Evil.
It's a well-documented fact that hundreds of apps and games hit the iTunes App Store each week, but how many of these pocket-sized endeavors are worth your hard earned cash? Each week, we pick out the best (or simply the most notable) of the bunch for our App Store Games of the Week.
Thanks to its slick hardware and robust online App Store, Apple has slowly built up its reputation as a significant presence in the gaming industry. It's clear from testing out its recently released 4th generation iPod Touch that the company is becoming more and more serious about its gaming initiative, and that it's taking the steps necessary to continue to be competitive in the near future. The following features offer up even more compelling reasons to take Apple and their iOS devices seriously.
Mikael Hed, CEO of Finnish game studio Rovio, discusses how their immensely successful iPhone hit, Angry Birds, began with just a simple screenshot of an unhappy bird character.
The fifth installment of the Civilization series is here, and it's already laying waste to our free time and sleeping habits. We tabbed strategy-games expert Rob Zacny to delve into the globe-trotting title, and he's here with the first of three articles dedicated to this sprawling epic. In this first installment, Rob talks about his initial experience with the game and some of the larger aspects that have grabbed his attention. In subsequent articles, he'll discuss the game's multiplayer mode and dig a little deeper into Civ V's nuts and bolts.
We reach out to respected professionals in the scientific community including jet pack engineers, plasma researchers, mechanical engineers, and the scientific advisor on Battlestar Galactica to get at the truth behind the fiction.
What began public life as an ambitious first-person shooter for a new console has since blossomed into a cross-media science-fiction juggernaut. Suit up, hop in your Warthog, and take a ride with us through the historic checkpoints of one of video gaming's most cherished franchises.
Game journalist and sports nut Greg Ford returns with the second installation in his multi-part Madden NFL 11 review, this time speaking about the game's new online and team-play features.
